Nutrition & Health

News from the Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 23, 2018 FIGHT THE BITE First Dead Bird of the Season Tests Positive For West Nile Virus Elk Grove, Ca.

When school's out, many children who live in poverty no longer eat nutritious meals like they do during school as part of the free and reduced-cost school lunch program.

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a UC Davis doctoral student researching mosquitoes? Meet Olivia Winokur, an enthusiastic, dedicated and multi-talented medical entomologist whose childhood curiosity about a yellow fever vaccination sparked her interest in 'skeeters.

UC Davis doctoral student and mosquito researcher Olivia Winokur remembers the defining moment when she learned that mosquitoes are much more than just annoying. In fact, it was her childhood curiosity about a yellow fever vaccination that sparked her interest in mosquitoes.

Avocados, now riding a tide of popularity appearing on toast in cookbooks and trendy restaurant menus, came late to commercial agriculture, reported Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley in Gastropod, a podcast that looks at food through the lens of science and history.

Jennifer Sowerwine helps restore culturally relevant food systems to immigrant and Native American populations The Karuk Tribe once lived on more than a million acres in remote Northern California.

If fair time is fun time--and it is--just add insects to make it even more fun.

(See PNAS paper) A newly published study by a team of scientists at Chiba University, Japan and at the University of California, Davis shows that inhibiting an enzyme, the soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH), plays a key role in curbing the inflammation associated with the development and progression of...

It's not just honey bees that will "share the love" Saturday, May 5 at the second annual California Honey Festival. Although the festival, set from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Nutrition education has stretched into a garden at a Fresno facility where women are putting their lives back together.